The China Questions 2 assembles top experts to explore key issues in US-China relations today, including conflict over Taiwan, economic and military competition, public health concerns, and areas of cooperation. Rejecting a new Cold War mindset, the authors call for dealing with the world's most important bilateral relationship on its own terms.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction. Maria Adele Carrai, Jennifer Rudolph, and Michael Szonyi -- I. Contextualizing China-Us Relations -- 1. US-China Relations: How Did We Get Here, Where Can We Go? -- 2. Is Engagement Still the Best US Policy for China? -- 3. Why Is China America's Favorite Threat? -- 4. How Does China See America? -- 5. How Is US Policy toward China Made? -- 6. Who Gets into the Chinese Communist Party, and Who Rises up the Ranks? -- II. Global Order -- 7. Will the World Make Room for China in the New Global Order? -- 8. Is China Trying to Undermine the Liberal International Order? -- 9. Is China Changing the International Humanitarian Intervention Regime? -- 10. Has China's Economic Success Proven That Autocracy Is Superior to Democracy? -- III. China in the World -- 11. What Are the Implications for the United States as China Reshapes Its Overseas Image? -- 12. How Can the United States Live with China's Belt and Road Initiative? -- 13. What Does China's Increased Influence in Latin America Mean for the United States? -- 14. Does the Rise of China Threaten the Transatlantic Partnership? -- 15. Is China Competing with the United States in Africa? -- 16. Should Western Nations Worry about the China-Russia Relationship? -- IV. Security -- 17. How Will China's National Power Evolve vis-à-vis the United States? -- 18. How Does China Think about National Security? -- 19. Is China a Challenge to US National Security? -- 20. How Will Emerging Technologies and Capabilities Impact Future US-China Military Competition? -- V. Flashpoints -- 21. Where Do Divergent US and Chinese Approaches to Dealing with North Korea Lead? -- 22. How Does Taiwan Affect US-PRC Relations? -- 23. Why Should Americans Care about Hong Kong?. 24. What Should Americans Know about Human Rights Violations in Xinjiang, and What Are US National Interests There? -- 25. Why Did China Build and Militarize Islands in the South China Sea, and Should the United States Care? -- VI. Economics -- 26. Who Wins and Who Loses in the US-China Trade War? -- 27. How Does Party-State Capitalism in China Interact with Global Capitalism? -- 28. Will the Renminbi Rival the Dollar? -- 29. How Can the United States Protect Its Intellectual Property from China's Espionage? -- 30. Is China Catching Up with the West? Or, Why Should We Care about China's Middle Class? -- VII. Public Health, Science, Technology -- 31. Is US-China Climate Action Possible in an Era of Mistrust? -- 32. What Can the United States Learn from China about Infrastructure? -- 33. What Is at Stake in the US-China Technological Relationship? -- 34. Has China Positioned Itself as a Leader in Big Tech Regulations? -- 35. What Does It Mean That China Is the First Country to Land on the Dark Side of the Moon? -- 36. Is US-China Global Health Collaboration Win-Win? -- VIII. Society -- 37. What's #MeToo in China All About? -- 38. Why Should the United States Support Civil Society in China and How? -- 39. Do Confucius Institutes Belong on American Campuses? -- 40. Should American Universities Engage with China? -- IX. Culture -- 41. Why Is Chinese Popular Culture Not So Popular Outside of China? -- 42. What Can Western Audiences Learn about China from Its Twenty-First-Century Writers? -- 43. How Does the Rising Chinese Market Reshape Global Art? -- 44. Does Religion Matter in Bilateral Relations? -- 45. Does Race Matter in US-China Relations? -- 46. How Does the Past Serve the Present in Today's China? -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Index.